Analytcal and Intuitive thinking

A previous blog entry listed several types of thinking, including the common analytical and intuitive. Reflection on ones’ thinking, and learning about learning are important and useful activities. They can lead to a valuable kind of self-understanding with pragmatic applications (like what jobs you should avoid and what hobbies or pastimes may be more gratifying).

John Nofsinger, an associate professor of finance at Washington State University and a speaker, writer, and scholar on behavioral finance, claims in Psychology Today that There are many decision-making activities in which it may be better to be an intuitive thinker. Other situations favor analytical thinkers. Personally, I’m more of an intuitive thinker. It’s my default cognitive process before the analytical kicks in. I always know when that change happens because I can hear rusty wheels grinding in my brain.

Here are a couple of exercises that will help grease those rusty gears. Take some time to test your analytical and intuitive thinking:

Part 1

Part 2

So, are you more of an analytical thinker, or are you an intuitive thinker?